Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Small But Mighty. Languages are complex and our words are powerful. Cognative scientist Lera Boroditsky discusses how even small variations in language may mean ...

For cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky, the fact the human brain can perceive other people's odd collection of noises as things called "words," which somehow possess meaning, is baffling in its own ...

Does language shape the way we think? For many linguists, the answer is no. From the 1970s through the 1990s, the accepted theory was that all languages have a common underlying structure, which means ...

Lera Boroditsky’s book “7000 Universes: How the Languages We Speak Shape the Way We Think”, is an unconventional route to exploring the diversity of human cultures and therefore the thinking processes ...

The way we talk about gender is evolving, but what impact do words have? Kim Chakanetsa meets two women at the forefront of the study of language and asks them whether the language we speak can impact ...

IN LAST weekend's Wall Street Journal, which I'm just now getting around to blogging, a long article by Lera Boroditsky, a Stanford psychologist, sums up her work on language and cognition. In short, ...

Imagine your city isn't as safe as it used to be. Robberies are on the rise, home invasions are increasing and murder rates have nearly doubled in the past three years. What should city officials do ...

Metaphors influence the way we think. In a paper in PLoS ONE published today, Paul Thibodeau and Lera Boroditsky, psychologists at Stanford University in California, show that people approve of ...